30 Mar
2009
30 Mar
'09
1:18 p.m.
Beman Dawes wrote:
While this is an interesting proposal, it appears to me to be several years worth of work. How would you structure the first summer's work? Would you aim at breadth (a prototype covering the whole) or depth (production quality work that concentrates on one aspect)?
I'd *again* (we have already discussed several proposals at length... I am disappointed to see that this one is no more restricted in scope than the others) advise the student to simplify the proposal. Better to write a hundred lines of code that is tested, documented and committed to trunk than a thousand lines that languish in the gsoc09 code repository. -t